Culture Club
Author: Katherine Wolff
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLanguage Arts&Disciplines/Library & Information Science
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Boston Lithography, 1825-1880
Author: Boston Athenaeum
Publisher: Boston Athenaeum Library
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 212
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcquired Tastes
Author: Boston Athenaeum
Publisher: Boston Athenaeum Library
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 390
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA stunning commemoration of 200 years of collecting, study, and debate at this venerable Boston institution
Pirating and Publishing
Author: Robert Darnton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2021-01-14
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 019514452X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of how book piracy in pre-Revolutionary France expanded the reach of the works that would inspire momentous change.
A Dome of Many-coloured Glass
Author: Amy Lowell
Publisher:
Published: 1912
Total Pages: 160
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Author: Hina Hirayama
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 0934552835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed history of the Boston Athenaeum's historic role in the founding of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston's South End
Author: Anthony Mitchell Sammarco
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2006-03
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780738539492
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBoston's South End, built on mostly man-made land, had become the city's premier neighborhood by the 1850s and featured many parks embellished with cast-iron fountains and distinctive fences. Over the next century, the South End became a thriving melting pot of ethnicities, races, and religions. Boston's South End shows how this area's brick row houses, lush green parks, upscale restaurants, and Boston Center for the Arts have made the South End both an attractive destination and a popular residential area.
Narrative of the Life of James Allen, Alias George Walton, Alias Jonas Pierce, Alias James H. York, Alias Burley Grove, the Highwayman: Being His Deat
Author: James Allen
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
Published: 2018-11-10
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 9780353097810
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Dark Archives
Author: Megan Rosenbloom
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2020-10-20
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 0374717427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy—the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering. Dozens of such books live on in the world’s most famous libraries and museums. Dark Archives exhumes their origins and brings to life the doctors, murderers, and indigents whose lives are sewn together in this disquieting collection. Along the way, Rosenbloom tells the story of how her team of scientists, curators, and librarians test rumored anthropodermic books, untangling the myths around their creation and reckoning with the ethics of their custodianship. A librarian and journalist, Rosenbloom is a member of The Order of the Good Death and a cofounder of their Death Salon, a community that encourages conversations, scholarship, and art about mortality and mourning. In Dark Archives—captivating and macabre in all the right ways—she has crafted a narrative that is equal parts detective work, academic intrigue, history, and medical curiosity: a book as rare and thrilling as its subject.
The Annotated Little Women (The Annotated Books)
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2015-11-02
Total Pages: 736
ISBN-13: 0393248828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer of Louisa May Alcott illuminates the world of Little Women and its author. Since its publication in 1868–69, Little Women, perhaps America’s most beloved children’s classic, has been handed down from mother to daughter for generations. It has been translated into more than fifty languages and inspired six films, four television shows, a Broadway musical, an opera, and a web series. This lavish, four-color edition features over 220 curated illustrations, including stills from the films, stunning art by Norman Rockwell, and iconic illustrations by children’s-book illustrators Alice Barber Stevens, Frank T. Merrill, and Jessie Wilcox Smith. Renowned Alcott scholar John Matteson brings his expertise to the book, to the March family it creates, and to the Alcott family who inspired it all. Through numerous photographs taken in the Alcott family home expressly for this edition—elder daughter Anna’s wedding dress, the Alcott sisters’ theater costumes, sister May’s art, and Abba Alcott’s recipe book—readers discover the extraordinary links between the real and the fictional family. Matteson’s annotations evoke the once-used objects and culture of a distant but still-relevant time, from the horse-drawn carriages to the art Alcott carefully placed in her story to references to persons little known today. His brilliant introductory essays examine Little Women’s pivotal place in children’s literature and tell the story of Alcott herself—a tale every bit as captivating as her fiction.
